The Member is quite right. The new Minister, Jonathan Wilkinson, announced that on September 21st. He's the new Minister replacing Dominic LeBlanc. As the ministry advisory panel, we were informed of this situation.
I am looking forward to having discussions with the Minister on this advisory panel going forward, but we want to look at this as a new opportunity and a new partnership opportunity with the federal government.
I have stood in this House many a time saying the challenges that the fishermen had around the Freshwater Marketing Corporation and the lack of investment in the Northwest Territories in the last number of years. That's why we came out with a fishing strategy of our own, how to break away from that and have the possibility of marketing our own fish nationally and internationally. We will continue to look at this new situation with this Minister going forward, and work closely with the Fishing Federation on the ideas that DFO brings to us.
Now, I'm going to go out of my way and say that they are going to bring the best idea forward. Maybe it's no better than what we presently have, but we will be apprised of the situation and work closely with the fishermen.